The authors consider food products in the context of ensuring a healthy lifestyle. Arguing with the results of studies of foreign and domestic scientists the relationship between food and a healthy lifestyle, as well as well-being, and developing the theory of a healthy food environment, the main parameters of the formation of a healthy food environment have been established: first of all the production and consumption of high-quality and safe food products. The directions of the market development for functional food products at the federal level are determined, vectors of research in relation to social toxicants are indicated. The authors believe that the main provisions of this study can serve to build a holistic, balanced and effective theory of a healthy food environment development, as a factor ensuring a healthy lifestyle and well-being of people at any age, and can also be useful for the business community in terms of possible investments, and for consumers, as key subjects of the implemented concept of sustainable development.

An innovative type of development presupposes a continuous and purposeful process of searching, preparing and implementing innovations that make it possible to increase the efficiency of the functioning of social production, increase the degree of realization of the needs of society, and ensure an improvement in the life of the people. The international experience of solving the problem of poverty through innovative and technological development can be applied in Russia. On the basis of the materials from 77 constituent entities of the Russian Federation the authors determined that the provided regional action plans to achieve the national goal of halving the poverty level I were not sufficient and propose the additional list of measures to achieve this goal. The authors propose the methods for calculating the target value of the poverty level indicator (the level of the population with incomes below the subsistence level and the distribution of target persons across the constituent entity of the Russian Federation.